text: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, wherein a man stitches together a human body from corpses and brings it to life, was inspired in part by the theory and demonstrations of Galvanism which may have been conducted by James Lind. Although the Creature was described in later works as a composite of whole body parts grafted together from cadavers and reanimated by the use of electricity, this description is not consistent with Shelleys work; both the use of electricity and the cobbled-together image of Frankensteins monster were more the result of James Whales popular 1931 film adaptation of the story.